Word: nell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unpredictable, inexhaustible, octogenarian George Bernard Shaw last week disclosed that he is at work on a historical play laid in the reign of Charles II. Said Shaw to sex-sniffing reporters: "Oh, forget about Nell Gwyn; this is going to be about really interesting people . . . Sir Isaac Newton, for instance...
...Author Lutes continued her homely reminiscences. In this volume her hardbitten, hard-eating, yo-year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...
...committee members fifteen in number, are: J. P. Bunker, of Matthews, M. Oppenheimer, Massachusetts, D. Whitmer, and J. O'Nell, Thayer; W. N. Perry of Hollis; G. Heiden of Weld; E. Spaeth, T. Carroll, A. Northrop of Grays; W. Bodine and H. Taylor of Wigglesworth; and R. Windsor and J. E. Massengale of Holworthy; E. G. Eklund of 40 Quincy Street, and A. Lowenburg and J. K. Dane of Dudley...
...current Marie Antoinette, Morley achieved stage fame overnight for his Oscar Wilde. From start to finish he is Wilde: whether softly purring his feline epigrams ("Frank [Harris] is asked to all the best houses-once"; "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing"); or fighting in court, desperate and cornered, for his freedom; or sinking out of life, bloated and weary, in the tarnished exile of a Paris bistro...
Coach: J. Nell Stahley...